Jason
@jasonkurian.dev
Dev @1Password [RTs/opinions are mine alone.]
MD and Keys @johnmaksymmusic
Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.
MD and Keys @johnmaksymmusic
Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.
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“It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”
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An underappreciated thing, I think, is that OpenAI wasn't the first to the technology, it was just the first to both have the technology and be recklessly irresponsible enough to actually release it as a product
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
An underappreciated thing, I think, is that OpenAI wasn't the first to the technology, it was just the first to both have the technology and be recklessly irresponsible enough to actually release it as a product
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This is the work.
📢 BREAKING NEWS 📢
EFF and co-counsel have filed a lawsuit against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of First Amendment-protected speech online. (1/5)
EFF and co-counsel have filed a lawsuit against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of First Amendment-protected speech online. (1/5)
October 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is the work.
This goes so hard for a lot of things. Well said
This is the triumph of “tremendous writing“ over good reasoning, sensible thinking, or common sense. The death of the universe by hot takes
October 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
This goes so hard for a lot of things. Well said
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📻On this week’s show: @gregsargent.bsky.social on Stephen Miller’s plan to “sleepwalk” America into authoritarianism; @pemalevy.bsky.social on the highest court citing the "dual state;" & @jakelahut.writes.news on the rise of the Ellisons' tech-media dynasty. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky
October 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
📻On this week’s show: @gregsargent.bsky.social on Stephen Miller’s plan to “sleepwalk” America into authoritarianism; @pemalevy.bsky.social on the highest court citing the "dual state;" & @jakelahut.writes.news on the rise of the Ellisons' tech-media dynasty. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky
@joashpthomas.bsky.social great to meet you yesterday! Thanks for chatting and congrats again on the book!
If you’re around Guelph or Kitchener I’d love to grab chai, coffee and/or a Kerala meal. I’ve finally found some nadan spots nearby
If you’re around Guelph or Kitchener I’d love to grab chai, coffee and/or a Kerala meal. I’ve finally found some nadan spots nearby
October 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
@joashpthomas.bsky.social great to meet you yesterday! Thanks for chatting and congrats again on the book!
If you’re around Guelph or Kitchener I’d love to grab chai, coffee and/or a Kerala meal. I’ve finally found some nadan spots nearby
If you’re around Guelph or Kitchener I’d love to grab chai, coffee and/or a Kerala meal. I’ve finally found some nadan spots nearby
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Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
October 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
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This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...
September 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...
Rare win, lets go KW youtu.be/uttoyAX4ntc?...
How This Small City Built Light Rail For Cheap
YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!
youtu.be
September 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Rare win, lets go KW youtu.be/uttoyAX4ntc?...
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hey so i never want to hear someone say “racism is dead,” again, k?
September 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
hey so i never want to hear someone say “racism is dead,” again, k?
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"the path currently being taken towards agentic AI leads to an elimination of privacy and security at the application layer"
📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
September 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"the path currently being taken towards agentic AI leads to an elimination of privacy and security at the application layer"
#cdnpoli please sign: chng.it/cMS5STDpxr
Have you seen this petition yet?
Stop Bill S-209’s De-Anonymization of Every Canadian Adult
chng.it
September 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
#cdnpoli please sign: chng.it/cMS5STDpxr
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Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.
www.theatlantic.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
In news of the most inconsequential nature: I have fully switched over to zen-browser.app today and highly recommend :)
Zen Browser
Beautifully designed, privacy-focused, and packed with features.
zen-browser.app
September 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
In news of the most inconsequential nature: I have fully switched over to zen-browser.app today and highly recommend :)
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"Mamdani’s proposals would make the city more livable for working people while improving public goods — from transit to child care — that benefit everyone, including those footing a slightly higher tax bill."
Tax the Rich. They'll Stay
Mamdani’s plan to tax New York’s millionaires has the penthouse crowd aflutter. History and data show they won’t fly the coop.
www.rollingstone.com
August 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"Mamdani’s proposals would make the city more livable for working people while improving public goods — from transit to child care — that benefit everyone, including those footing a slightly higher tax bill."
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Fear of the New York City subway is a mark of low moral character.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...
The Subway Is Not Scary
Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
June 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Fear of the New York City subway is a mark of low moral character.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...
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Take your ass to Cracker Barrel.
August 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Take your ass to Cracker Barrel.
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Living through history is weird.
February 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Living through history is weird.
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No, The UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online
Young people should be able to access information, speak to each other and to the world, play games, and express themselves online without the government making decisions about what speech is permissible. But in one of the latest…
Young people should be able to access information, speak to each other and to the world, play games, and express themselves online without the government making decisions about what speech is permissible. But in one of the latest…
No, The UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online
Young people should be able to access information, speak to each other and to the world, play games, and express themselves online without the government making decisions about what speech is permissible. But in one of the latest misguided attempts to protect children online, internet users of all ages in the UK are being forced to prove their age before they can access millions of websites under the country’s Online Safety Act (OSA).
www.techdirt.com
August 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
No, The UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online
Young people should be able to access information, speak to each other and to the world, play games, and express themselves online without the government making decisions about what speech is permissible. But in one of the latest…
Young people should be able to access information, speak to each other and to the world, play games, and express themselves online without the government making decisions about what speech is permissible. But in one of the latest…
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July 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
July 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Today I e-biked to an appointment in town in the same amount of time it would have taken me to drive. I was worried because I had to leave a couple minutes later than I plannedc but it worked out.
In before you ask, I drive my MT GTI fast. 😄
In before you ask, I drive my MT GTI fast. 😄
July 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Today I e-biked to an appointment in town in the same amount of time it would have taken me to drive. I was worried because I had to leave a couple minutes later than I plannedc but it worked out.
In before you ask, I drive my MT GTI fast. 😄
In before you ask, I drive my MT GTI fast. 😄
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Pause for three minutes and soak up the grace of this man.
Earlier today, the father of three U.S. Marines, Narciso Barranco, spoke publicly for the first time after being pinned to the ground and savagely punched by ICE agents while they arrested the landscaper outside the IHOP where he worked.
Earlier today, the father of three U.S. Marines, Narciso Barranco, spoke publicly for the first time after being pinned to the ground and savagely punched by ICE agents while they arrested the landscaper outside the IHOP where he worked.
July 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Pause for three minutes and soak up the grace of this man.
Earlier today, the father of three U.S. Marines, Narciso Barranco, spoke publicly for the first time after being pinned to the ground and savagely punched by ICE agents while they arrested the landscaper outside the IHOP where he worked.
Earlier today, the father of three U.S. Marines, Narciso Barranco, spoke publicly for the first time after being pinned to the ground and savagely punched by ICE agents while they arrested the landscaper outside the IHOP where he worked.
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when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.
RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF).
This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.
This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.
July 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”